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EPA Recommends Historic Veto of Spruce Mine

This morning the U.S. EPA made public regional administrator Shawn Garvin's recommendation that the EPA veto the Clean Water Act Permit for the Spruce No. 1 Mine in Logan County, West Virginia.

The Spruce Mine is one of the largest mountaintop removal mines ever proposed in Central Appalachia and would result in the destruction of 2,278 acres of temperate rainforest and the burying of 7.5 miles of streams in the Spruce Fork sub-watershed.

Read RAN's new report which sets out why the Spruce No. 1 mine violates the EPA's guidance on surface mining.

Rather than caving to the coal industry, it is time EPA do what the science and public health demands - end the practice of mountaintop removal mining once and for all - starting with a veto of the Spruce No.1 mine!

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